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Green Oaks Ranch House

Listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1976. 19 historic topographic surveys show this location, the earliest from 1902.

From the record

One of 63 National Register listings published here for San Mateo County · listed in 1976 · category: Building.

Sources: the case file at the National Archives · the National Register database, National Park Service

The listing

  • Address. 13 mi. S of Pescadero on CA 1, Pescadero, 94060
  • When was it listed? November 1976
  • Category. building
  • Census division. Half Moon Bay
  • National Register reference number. 76000526 - the number the National Park Service assigned this property when it was listed, and the key its nomination file is catalogued under at the National Archives.

Then and now

1902 to 1998

The ground this property stands on, surveyed 96 years apart. Drag the handle to wipe between them. Both sheets are United States Geological Survey originals; neither has been altered.

Topographic sheet covering Green Oaks Ranch House, surveyed 1998
Topographic sheet covering Green Oaks Ranch House, surveyed 1902

Fires near this property

68 since 1992

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 68 fires within 5 miles of Green Oaks Ranch House between 1992 and 2020, burning about 586 acres in total. 1 started naturally. 2 were recorded as arson. Distance is straight-line from the map coordinates, so a fire counted here may appear on a neighbouring settlement's page as well.

Reported cause Fires
Missing data/not specified/undetermined35
Equipment and vehicle use13
Recreation and ceremony9
Misuse of fire by a minor3
Debris and open burning3
Arson/incendiarism2
Power generation/transmission/distribution2
Natural1

The most recent of them, most recent first, with the day each was reported and the service that recorded it.

DateCause SizeReported by Name on the report
9 September 1999Natural1.0 acresSan Mateo-Santa Cruz UnitGAZOS CREEK
7 September 2004Debris and open burning6.0 acresSan Mateo-Santa Cruz UnitLAST CHANCE
4 September 2006Equipment and vehicle useunder an acreSan Mateo-Santa Cruz UnitANO
27 September 2009Misuse of fire by a minorunder an acreSan Mateo-Santa Cruz UnitLAST CHANCE
24 September 2001Recreation and ceremonyunder an acreSan Mateo-Santa Cruz UnitWADDELL
23 September 1994Debris and open burningunder an acreSan Mateo-Santa Cruz UnitNUEVO
21 September 2012Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreSan Mateo-Santa Cruz UnitNEW YEARS
21 September 2005Equipment and vehicle useunder an acreSan Mateo-Santa Cruz UnitBIG BASIN

Every fire recorded in San Mateo County

Mines and quarries near this property

1 within 5 miles

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 1 working within 5 miles of Green Oaks Ranch House: 1 occurrence. None of them still produces. What was taken out: Gold. Distance is straight-line from the map coordinates, so a quarry counted here may appear on a neighbouring settlement's page as well.

Where SiteCommodity StatusRecorded
Waddell CreekGoldOccurrence

Every working recorded in San Mateo County

Storms near this property

12 since 1998

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Pescadero, the town this property stands in, in 12 storm reports between 1998 and 2017: 9 flash flood, 2 flood, 1 debris flow. No death or injury is recorded in these reports. Each account below is quoted exactly as the forecast office filed it, from the NOAA Storm Events Database, and each date opens the federal record of that event.

WhenEvent Place namedHarm What the report says
February 1998Flash FloodPescadero$200,000no account filed
January 2010FloodPescadero$20,000Rescuers pulled six people out of cars that stalled in 3-foot water in Pescadero.
February 2009FloodPescadero$8,000Pescadero Creek Road flooded stranding two vehicles from many hours.
December 2012Flash FloodPescadero$500The water level on the Pescadero Creek at Pescadero gauge reached 14.56 feet. Flooding begins at this location at levels above 12.0 feet. This is the peak level of the flash flood event.
December 2012Flash FloodPescadero$500The water level on the Pescadero Creek at Pescadero gauge reached 13.23 feet. At this location, flooding occurs with levels above 12.0 feet.
December 2012Flash FloodPescadero$500The water level on the Pescadero Creek at Pescadero gauge reached 14.47 feet. Minor flooding begins at levels above 12.0 feet at this location.
December 2012Flash FloodPescadero$500Levels at the gauge on Pescadero Creek near Pescadero reached 12.86 feet. Minor flooding on the Creek at this location will begin with levels above 12.0 feet.
February 2017Debris FlowPescadero-Debris flow blocking part of roadway near Cloverdale Rd and Pescadero Creek Rd.
February 2017Flash FloodPescadero-Stream gauge on the Pescadero River near Pescadero exceeded flood stage between 7 pm on February 20 and 12:30 am on February 21.
February 1998Flash FloodPescadero-Pescadero Creek
February 1998Flash FloodPescadero-Pescadero Creek
February 2000Flash FloodPescadero-no account filed

Every storm recorded in San Mateo County

Maps showing this location

19 surveys

United States Geological Survey topographic sheets whose coverage includes this point. Matched by taking the middle of the area the National Park Service maps for this listing, then testing that coordinate against the published boundary of every sheet.

Listed places nearby

2 within 8 miles

Other National Register properties close enough to walk or drive between, ordered by distance from this one. Both positions come from the same geocoding pass that matched these properties to their map sheets.

Photograph PropertyDistance Listed
Dickerman Barn1.1 miles1982
Pigeon Point Lighthouse5.6 miles1977

Sources for this property

National Archives recordThe nomination case file for reference 76000526 in Record Group 79.
San Mateo CountyAll 63 listed properties in this county.

Provenance

  • Listing record. National Park Service National Register of Historic Places, listed-properties dataset, current to 2026-05-22.
  • Map join. Address geocoded through the United States Census geocoder, then tested against the published boundary of every sheet in the USGS Historical Topographic Map Collection.
  • How this page is made. Listing fields come from federal records; map-sheet coverage is a labelled coordinate-to-boundary calculation, not a source-field claim.
  • Wildfire. Short, Karen C. 2022. Spatial wildfire occurrence data for the United States, 1992-2020 [FPA_FOD_20221014]. 6th Edition. Fort Collins, CO: Forest Service Research Data Archive. https://doi.org/10.2737/RDS-2013-0009.6 Collected with United States Government funding and usable without additional permissions or fees.
  • Mines and quarries. USGS Mineral Resources Data System (MRDS) https://mrdata.usgs.gov/mrds/ A work of the United States government, no copyright under 17 U.S.C. 105.
  • Storms. NOAA National Centers for Environmental Information, Storm Events Database https://www.ncei.noaa.gov/stormevents/ A work of the United States government, no copyright under 17 U.S.C. 105. Narratives are quoted verbatim from the National Weather Service report and are not edited or summarised.